Re: 3ware array access lock up on 7.1-RC

2008-12-29 Thread Artem Kuchin
Mel пишет: On Friday 26 December 2008 08:12:49 Artem Kuchin wrote: I am not even sure that it is related to freebsd, but maybe someone could point out the problem. We wanted to upgrade our hosting server from FreeBSD 6.2, 3ware 8506-4LP SATA RAID, raid 5 to FreeBSD 7.1 (RC for now), 9550SX

vpnc connects, but does not work

2008-12-29 Thread perryh
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting I can't ping the tun0 interface nor anything beyond it. The symptom seems to resemble what is described in the Routing section of http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~flemej/fbsd-cisco-v

Re: Unable to modify sysid with Fdisk

2008-12-29 Thread David Scialom
Hello Tim, Thanks for your suggestion. The probleme after the section 3 does not exist. It is actually a wrong copy paste done by me. Nothing changed after your suggestion : Zurich# dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=128 of=/dev/da0 128+0 records in 128+0 records out 65536 bytes transferred in 0.095998

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread RW
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 "Masoom Shaikh" wrote: lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install > them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file > > *default tag=RELENG_7 > *default host=ftp2.tw.freebsd.org > *default prefix=/usr > *default base=/var/db > *default

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 > "Masoom Shaikh" wrote: > > lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install > > > them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file > > > > *default tag=RELENG_7 > > *default host=ftp2.tw.freebsd.

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Randy Pratt
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:39:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 > > "Masoom Shaikh" wrote: > > > > lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install > > > > > them ? also csup didn't help here is my cs

RE: Netstat command output

2008-12-29 Thread Karrj
I have continued to research the issue of receiving errors on the Broadcom and from all the information I have found it appears Broadcom in general may be problematic. I have verified all hardware and hard coded switch and cards at 100Mbps and full duplex and still recieve a small percentage of er

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-29 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hello, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xterminal distro. it's simple: mount / readonly, put everything here. in /etc put /etc/rc consisting only #!/bin/sh exec /systemrc in /systemrc put something like that: #!/bin/sh echo -n Mounting workstation co

Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> > SSH_CONNECTION > > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE > > EDITOR > > I suspect linux to set them from .profile files (even /etc/profile) and not > hardcoded in a shell or login program. The default skeletons Mel: You were right to some extent. However, the problem is more complicated (or less complicated

Optimising NFS for system files

2008-12-29 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, I'm working on a project to have many diskless clients PXEbooting on 1 nfs server. With some help :-) i could manage to share almost all system files (/, /usr,..) through NFS. i can see a reading speed difference 4 time slower on client than on server (time tar -cf - /usr > /dev/null).

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 08:39:42PM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 > > "Masoom Shaikh" wrote: > > > > lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install > > > > > them ? also csup didn't help here i

Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Mel
On Monday 29 December 2008 11:12:33 Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > > > SSH_CONNECTION > > > FTP_PASSIVE_MODE > > > EDITOR > > > > I suspect linux to set them from .profile files (even /etc/profile) and > > not hardcoded in a shell or login program. The default skeletons > > Mel: > > You were right to

Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 12:05 -0900, Mel wrote: > > > I may be better off using getenv() in PHP directly. > > For portability yes, since it doesn't rely on EGPCS, but otherwise > they give the same results. Another option would be to pay the PHP people to add POSIX 1003.1-2001 gethostname(2). I'l

Re: Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-29 Thread af300wsm
On Dec 28, 2008 5:42am, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:14:38 + Did you install the latest Nvidia driver? Perhaps your card isn't supported anymore. Nvidia dropped some "older" chipsets in their latest driver. You can try "nvidia-driver-96xx" or "nvidia-driver-71xx" in t

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 + Frank Shute wrote: > You can keep a local copy of the docs & update the sources for the > docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command > after you have csup'd. > > The process is described within this page I just put up: > > http://www.sh

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute wrote: > You can keep a local copy of the docs & update the sources for the > docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command > after you have csup'd. > > The process is described within this page I just put up: > > http://www.shut

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thank you very much, it is now running well after some hardware adventure. I couldn't find the hostname sent by dhcp, but found a way to find the ip address. just use hostname command. The only problem i have is that the "echo done" and other standard outputs are not visible in /var/log/me

Re: Optimising NFS for system files

2008-12-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i can see a reading speed difference 4 time slower on client than on server (time tar -cf - /usr > /dev/null). I will play with jumbo MTU for network performance, but would anybody know if i can ask system files NFS exports to stay in server memory ? I have less than 2Go to share and 2GO DDR

help with sed and tick marks

2008-12-29 Thread Len Conrad
A string in a file contains ('n...@domain.net'', ... where and we want to remove the extra tick mark, to have: ('n...@domain.net', iow, replace net'' with net' We've tried many combinations with sed, but failed. Suggestions? thanks, Len

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:43:19 +, Bruce Cran wrote: > Are the docs branched? I tried running a csup with tag=RELENG_7 and > nothing got created; changing the line > > doc-all > > to > > doc-all tag=. > > fixed it and fetched all the docs. Hi Bruce, No, there are no release-specific branches t

Re: help with sed and tick marks

2008-12-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:31:17 +0100, "Len Conrad" wrote: > A string in a file contains > > ('n...@domain.net'', > > ... where and we want to remove the extra tick mark, to have: > > ('n...@domain.net', > > iow, replace > > net'' > > with > > net' > > We've tried many combinations with sed, but fail

restart rsync process via shell script

2008-12-29 Thread Noah
Hi there, I am trying to figure out the most accurate way to assess if an rsync process is running and is established to the remote rsync server and is transferring data. I am writing a bourne shell script to restart rsync if the connection to the remote rsync server is lost. The command "ps ax

Re: restart rsync process via shell script

2008-12-29 Thread Mel
On Monday 29 December 2008 13:35:06 Noah wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to figure out the most accurate way to assess if an rsync > process is running and is established to the remote rsync server and is > transferring data. I am writing a bourne shell script to restart rsync > if the connecti

running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-29 Thread luizbcampos
Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? Whereis its executable? (path) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr.

Re: strange fsck results

2008-12-29 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:08 AM 12/28/2008, re...@adeptscience.com wrote: I am running VMware Server 2.0 but see the same results with VMware Server 1.0. The virtual machines are copies that I made by transferring the vmware files for it from another server. As far as I know it did not have any fsck problems on tha

Re: Unable to modify sysid with Fdisk

2008-12-29 Thread Tim Judd
David Scialom wrote: Hello Tim, Thanks for your suggestion. The probleme after the section 3 does not exist. It is actually a wrong copy paste done by me. Nothing changed after your suggestion : Zurich# dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=128 of=/dev/da0 128+0 records in 128+0 records out 65536 byt

Re: restart rsync process via shell script

2008-12-29 Thread Noah
Mel wrote: On Monday 29 December 2008 13:35:06 Noah wrote: Hi there, I am trying to figure out the most accurate way to assess if an rsync process is running and is established to the remote rsync server and is transferring data. I am writing a bourne shell script to restart rsync if the conne

Re: running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-29 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:13 PM, luizbcampos wrote: >Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? Whereis its > executable? (path) I have no idea what asfiles is, but I would assume `which asfiles' would tell you where it is located. -- Glen Barber "Tell me and I forget. Teach me an

Re: running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-29 Thread perryh
> >Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? > > Whereis its executable? (path) > > I have no idea what asfiles is, but I would assume > `which asfiles' would tell you where it is located. ... unless it's not in PATH, and the OP is asking which directory needs to be added. asfiles i

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:43:19PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 + > Frank Shute wrote: > > > You can keep a local copy of the docs & update the sources for the > > docs with csup but you have to regenerate them with a make command > > after you have csup'd. > > >

Re: running asfiles on windowmaker...

2008-12-29 Thread Peter Boosten
On 30 dec 2008, at 07:02, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Does anyone know how to run asfiles on windowmaker? Whereis its executable? (path) I have no idea what asfiles is, but I would assume `which asfiles' would tell you where it is located. ... unless it's not in PATH, and the OP is aski

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:12:51 + Frank Shute wrote: > As Giorgios points out, the docs aren't branched. > > I'll try & make it clearer on that page that it's only for > SUPFILE(source) that there is a branch you have to follow. > PORTSSUPFILE(ports) & DOCSUPFILE(docs) are just given the curren